Cold War Rumor for Call of Duty 7
Bashandslash.com has an interesting article up about Treyarchs next Call of Duty:
What are your thoughts on this? Is it a surprise? There is a lot of Vietnam speculation, but would Korea be better?
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Old rumors have resurrected that Treyarch's next Call of Duty installment, set to debut this fall, will be based on the events surrounding the Cold War.
With IW making a modern warfare game, a Cold-War game would signal Call of Duty's complete break with World War II.
A few months ago, the very first rumors about the new Treyarch game suggested a Vietnam conflict. Those rumors came about from an Activision producer looking at getting the rights to 60's era music and it was never proven that the music was destined for a Treyarch product and hence the idea of a CoD7 in 'nam died.
That producer, Noah Heller, is on record saying this on joystiq.com :
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Noah Heller
Now, the rumors are coming hot and heavy that Trey is developing a game set during the so-called "Cold-War": a period of time when the armies of the world's strongest nations sat on the sideline while they watched their proxies duked it out:
So what will the game be all about? The Cuban missile crisis? The war in Vietnam? The war in the Middle East?
Korea a good fit?
One war during that period of history did not fit the proxy-versus-proxy mold was the war in Korea. That war would eventually see United Nations forces going up against hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers streaming across the Yalu river.
For many reasons, my hope is that Treyarch picks Korea over all other possible scenarios.
Many fans of the series would rather the game be set in Vietnam, but that had a distinctly "asymmetric" feel to it and few events in that conflict could generate the melodramatic patriotism that CoD games like to create.
However, a Korean war was more of an even match between the two combatants and had many emotionally charged moments.
Imagine you are with an American platoon on a hilltop in the north of Korea, late in the war. It's night. It's cold. Suddlenly you hear trumpets and you see thousands of Chinese rushing up the hill towards your position. That would certainly make for a breathtaking SP level, wouldn't it?
A Korean conflict would allow the use of non-American "allied teams" - a common feature in all CoD games. The ability play as British, Canadian, or Australian forces, say, would obviously reap dividends in foreign game sales.
All-in-all, a game based on the Korean conflict has obvious benefits over a game based on a Vietnam war - which to this day raises bitter memories in all Americans.
Sources
This group has started on Steam (link) by someone suggesting they have inside information (thanks to iBleedv20 for the tip).
Older sources include:
PlayStation Lifestyle: Source
With IW making a modern warfare game, a Cold-War game would signal Call of Duty's complete break with World War II.
A few months ago, the very first rumors about the new Treyarch game suggested a Vietnam conflict. Those rumors came about from an Activision producer looking at getting the rights to 60's era music and it was never proven that the music was destined for a Treyarch product and hence the idea of a CoD7 in 'nam died.
That producer, Noah Heller, is on record saying this on joystiq.com :
"I won't let your readers read into the comment too much, but we are showing the final battles of the Pacific and the European Theatre and that lets us put a close to the war. I'm sure game companies will be making World War II games for years to come and World War II is a very classic war. But we're happy that we put the war to bed."
Noah Heller
Now, the rumors are coming hot and heavy that Trey is developing a game set during the so-called "Cold-War": a period of time when the armies of the world's strongest nations sat on the sideline while they watched their proxies duked it out:
So what will the game be all about? The Cuban missile crisis? The war in Vietnam? The war in the Middle East?
Korea a good fit?
One war during that period of history did not fit the proxy-versus-proxy mold was the war in Korea. That war would eventually see United Nations forces going up against hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers streaming across the Yalu river.
For many reasons, my hope is that Treyarch picks Korea over all other possible scenarios.
Many fans of the series would rather the game be set in Vietnam, but that had a distinctly "asymmetric" feel to it and few events in that conflict could generate the melodramatic patriotism that CoD games like to create.
However, a Korean war was more of an even match between the two combatants and had many emotionally charged moments.
Imagine you are with an American platoon on a hilltop in the north of Korea, late in the war. It's night. It's cold. Suddlenly you hear trumpets and you see thousands of Chinese rushing up the hill towards your position. That would certainly make for a breathtaking SP level, wouldn't it?
A Korean conflict would allow the use of non-American "allied teams" - a common feature in all CoD games. The ability play as British, Canadian, or Australian forces, say, would obviously reap dividends in foreign game sales.
All-in-all, a game based on the Korean conflict has obvious benefits over a game based on a Vietnam war - which to this day raises bitter memories in all Americans.
Sources
This group has started on Steam (link) by someone suggesting they have inside information (thanks to iBleedv20 for the tip).
Older sources include:
PlayStation Lifestyle: Source
What are your thoughts on this? Is it a surprise? There is a lot of Vietnam speculation, but would Korea be better?
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